We performed a comparison between Mimecast Email Security and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Office 365 Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."URL inspection works pretty well."
"It does a good job for us, and its admin console is easy to use."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"Email security is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"It's good, it keeps the spam out."
"The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature."
"Due to our specialized use case, that HIPAA dictionary really comes in handy."
"It offers an easy initial setup."
"The platform is scalable when installed on server-based systems."
"The deployment is very easy. It's quite straightforward."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"I find the comprehensive features of Sophos Email most valuable."
"Sophos Email offers encryption and malware protection, provides visibility into emails, has 99% accuracy in catching spam, enhances organizational safety, integrates with various vendors like Microsoft, is deployable with any email service, prevents data loss, features authentication rules, synchronizes with Active Directory and Azure, and includes a self-service portal. The product is very flexible."
"Sophos Email is in the cloud and integrated with its firewall."
"The solution protects users from phishing links and spam."
"Sophos Email provides both inbound and outbound filtering."
"Many of our users complain that the system is blocking too many attachments. It's a good practice from a security perspective, but our users think Mimecast is doing too much. It might be something we'll have to adjust."
"They should improve the cookies management feature."
"I'd like to have better support from the product in the future."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"I did have a problem with Mimecast. That is why I was looking for an alternative solution because their sender IP address gets poorly rated by Microsoft."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"The detection rates are an area for improvement."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Sophos Email has few improvements to implement, including the handling of incoming emails in the systems. It needs to add additional feature that helps in enhancing the scanning processes of these emails. While adding these features, it should work towards improving the current features also."
"Sophos Email can improve mail security."
"The product could include all the essential features and capabilities, similar to the on-premise, server-based version."
"Sophos Email could better detect fake emails, especially when the domain names are similar. It needs to improve spotting spoofed domains, like when one letter differs in a domain name. It also needs to incorporate AI detection. Barracuda detects suspicious emails better. However, malware scanning is better in Sophos Email."
"The security of the solution could improve."
"There have been some issues with compatibility and effectiveness, particularly when integrating it with our firewall. The main challenge has been email protection, especially due to compatibility issues and difficulties with log access and email relay configuration."
"Their technical support is slow to respond."
"Lacks visibility into spam emails."
Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Office 365 Protection with 23 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 3rd in Office 365 Protection with 25 reviews. Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email writes "Ensures that there is maximum security enabled for our communication processes". Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Mimecast Email Security vs. Sophos Email report.
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